Ryan Denomme

Research associate

Contact

Ryan Denomme

Email: rdenomme@uwaterloo.ca

Phone: +1-519-888-4567 ext. 36174

Education

  • MASc, Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2011
  • BASc, Nanotechnology Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2010

Research interests

  • Optical properties of metal nanomaterials
  • Nanotechnology enabled biosensors for medical and environmental diagnostics
  • Micro and nanofabrication

Publications

Refereed journal publications

  • Dyck N., Denomme R., and Nieva P.M., "Effective medium properties of arbitrary nanoparticle shapes in a localized surface plasmon resonance sensing layer," J. Phys. Chem. C, April 2011. (In Press)

Full papers in refereed conference proceedings

MEMS = Micro-electromechanical systems 

MOEMS = Micro-(opto)-electromechanical systems 

SPIE = The Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineer

IEEE = The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

  • Asiaei, S., Denomme, R., Marr, C., Nieva, P., Vijayan, M., "Fast self-assembly kinetics of alkanethiols on gold nano-particles, simulation and characterization by location surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy.", Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems, SPIE MEMS-MOEMS, January 2012.
  • Denomme, R., Young, Z., Brock, L., Nieva, P. M., Vijayan M., "Optimization of a localized surface plasmon resonance biosensor for heat shock protein 70," SPIE Photonics West: OPTO, vol. 8269, San Francisco, January 2012
  • Denomme R., Iyer K., Kreder M., Smith B., and Nieva P.M., "Fabrication of large-area metal nanoparticle arrays by nanosphere lithography for localized surface plasmon resonance biosensors," SPIE Photonics West MOEMS-MEMS, San Francisco, vol. 7927, January 2011.
  • Lu Z., Denomme R., Souleymane B., and Martel S., "Toward bacteria detection on-chip: a biosensor based on Magnetotatic Bacteria and impedance spectroscopy," µTAS 2007, May 2007
  • Denomme R., Lu Z., and Martel S., "A microsensor for the detection of a single pathogenic bacterium using Magnetotatic Bacteria based bio-carriers: simulations and preliminary experiments," IEEE-EMBC 2007, May 2007
  • Lu Z., Denomme R., and Martel S., "Micro/Nanoparticle detection: an impedimetric microsensor based on CMOS technology," IEEE NANO 2007, April 2007

Poster presentations (abstract refereed), application notes and others

  • Iyer K., Denomme R., and Nieva P.M., "Using nanosphere lithography to fabricate nanoparticle arrays for plasmonic applications," CMC Microsystems Application Note, Online, March 2011, CMC-00200-01522
  • Dyck N. and Denomme R., "Flow injection analysis system for use in spectroscopic characterization of photonic devices in a microfluidic environment," CMC Microsystems Application Note, Online, September 2010, CMC-00200-01363
  • Denomme R., Asiaei S., Hassanpour P.A., Nieva P.M., and Vijayan M., "Portable protein biosensor based on localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of metallic nanoparticles and interference spectroscopy," Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress, San Francisco: Select Biosciences, 1008-LOAC, August 2009.
  • Nieva P.M., Bassiachvili E., Hassanpour P.A., Shavezipur M., Denomme R., Asiaei S., Norris R., Effa D., Hanitijo D., "SimsLab at University of Waterloo", International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, 13-19 November 2009, FL, USA, IMECE 2009.

Patents

  • Nieva P.M., and Denomme R., "Method and apparatus for an interferometric sensor," US Provisional Patent Application, No. 61/282,921, Filed on April 22, 2010.